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Darrell Allison The blowback was swift after the University of North Carolina Board of Governors chose one of its own to be the next chancellor of Fayetteville State University. The board's pick, Darrell Allison, resigned from the board in September to make a bid for the open chancellorship at the historically Black public university. But even before that move, Allison was a divisive figure in North Carolina higher education. He publicly supported a controversial plan to preserve Silent Sam -- a Confederate statue at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's campus -- after protesters...

On Monday night, Jaki Shelton Green, North Carolina’s first African American and third woman poet laureate, spoke at the first of this week’s Frank B. Hanes Writer-in-Residence events, “A Reading, Conversation, and Q&A with Jaki Shelton Green.”

Dreams Held Fast: A Timeline of Black History in the Triangle Designed by Jon Fuller From the nation’s first public university, built by enslaved people, to the demonstrators this summer who finally rid the Capitol grounds of its monuments to white supremacy, the history of the Triangle and its major towns and cities—Chapel Hill, Durham, and Raleigh—is inextricably intertwined with the history of its Black residents. Black history is American history, and Black History Week, established as a precursor to Black History Month by the author and historian Carter G. Woodson, was an ...

At Friday’s meeting, Chairperson of the Faculty Mimi Chapman and University leaders expressed an interest in moving forward, past discussions solely focused on the Silent Sam settlement. Other topics brought up at the meeting included UNC’s relationship with its cultural centers, vaccine rollout in Orange County and plans for the next...

Regardless of Tuesday’s election results, Keshav Javvadi hopes to leave a lasting impact on the University. “Your voice matters, get involved,” he said.